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One thing is for sure, he will be juicing more than ever to prove he never juiced all that much. But seriously, I don't care. The NFL has juicers from top to bottom, MLB has a fraction of this. Braun would be laughed off the practice field if he showed up looking like that.

“There’s just no reason to get into it and continue to bring this stuff up,’’ he says. “It’s bad for baseball. It’s bad for the team. It’s bad for me. It’s not good for anyone.

“Well, it’s probably good for (TV) ratings, or else people wouldn’t continue to do it.’‘

...“All this stuff, really, is indicative of a larger issue in our society,’’ Braun says. “People love negativity. There are so many great stories out there, so many wonderful things to focus on, but people focus on the negative because a lot of people aren’t happy in life.’‘

I agree with this. I find it fascinating that people feel that Braun needs to explain himself or whatever. He did the crime, then he did the time, it's over. The need for him to talk about it is just so self-righteous people can feel more impressed with themselves.

'All this stuff, really, is indicative of a larger issue in our society,’ Braun says. “People love negativity. There are so many great stories out there, so many wonderful things to focus on, but people focus on the negative because a lot of people aren’t happy in life.

Oh yeah, that's it Braun. It's not that you chose to break the rules and got caught, it's "society". In other words, it's everyone else's fault except your own. Especially starting with that raging "anti-semite" who had the nerve to collect your tainted sample, no doubt.

If Ryan wasn't such an ass, it would be an easier situation to handle. After all, this is a guy who was so competitive he used PEDs even though he had already signed his mega deal, and even after getting caught once. There is something admirable about giving everything to being your best and helping your team win, and he could tap into the same admiration fans have always had for rule breakers such as the Niekros.

I like Braun - might be a 'distance makes the heart grow fonder' kind of thing, because i haven't particularly followed him other than in headlines. and yeah, reprehensible some of the stuff he did it was. but he eventually crawled into that bed he made, took his punishment, faced the music, and has the rest of his days with this chapter of his life being perhaps the defining marker and never far from his public persona.

If Roberto Alomar was forced to wait a year for HoF induction because of a 5-second spitting blowup in a 17-year career, I think Braun can stand some repetitive questions about four or more years of post-drug agreement violations and tactical scumbaggery.

I think Braun can stand some repetitive questions about four or more years of post-drug agreement violations and tactical scumbaggery.

Braun has such a wonderful persecution complex. It's evident when he keeps saying "everyone makes mistakes, but nobody has to admit to them in public". Well yea, Ryan, we all make mistakes, but yea, quite a bit of them are in public. It's the "public" of our office, or our home, or whatever, but it's public. If I screw up at work, make a mistake, you bet your ass I'm going to have to talk about it.

Ryan lives in a fantasy world, him and the other famous Ryan in Whisky should team up and live their in their fantasy world together.

He chose to make things an issue with the apparent cover up, denial, smearing of the tester's reputation and being caught in the Biogenesis mess a couple of years later.

Actually, the positive test was for testosterone that he got from Biogenesis. The extra 15 games was for the denial and gloating after getting off on a technicality, the stupid comments about the testing protocol, and the attack on the sample collector's integrity. If there had been separate underlying PED offenses, there's no way MLB would have let him off with less than 100 games.

And I'm not sure what "apparent cover up" you're referring to. Melky Cabrera is the one who tried to cover up his positive test by creating fake web sites from which he pretended to have gotten a tainted supplement.

I think Braun can stand some repetitive questions about four or more years of post-drug agreement violations and tactical scumbaggery.

And it's that scumbaggery that has everyone all worked up. Had he just done the time for his crime without the rest of his shenanigans, I don't believe there'd be all this hostility (some, certainly, just not nearly as much as he is seeing).